Oliver Richmond
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300175318
- eISBN:
- 9780300210132
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300175318.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Western struggles — and failures — to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether ...
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Western struggles — and failures — to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. This book asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners' failure to understand or engage with what local people actually want and need. It interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.Less
Western struggles — and failures — to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. This book asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners' failure to understand or engage with what local people actually want and need. It interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.
Catherine Durose, Stephen Greasley, and Liz Richardson (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422170
- eISBN:
- 9781447301677
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422170.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a long-standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have ...
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The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a long-standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have sought to empower, activate, and give responsibility to some citizens, while other groups have been abandoned or ignored. Drawing on extensive up-to-date empirical work by leading researchers in the field, this book aims to explain what debates about local governance mean for local people. Questions addressed include: what new demands are being made on citizens and why? Which citizens are affected and how have they responded? What difference do changing forms of local governance make to people's lives? The book explores governance and citizenship in relation to multiculturalism, economic migration, community cohesion, housing markets, neighbourhoods, faith organisations, behaviour change, and e-democracy, in order to establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that citizens are constituted at the local level today.Less
The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a long-standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have sought to empower, activate, and give responsibility to some citizens, while other groups have been abandoned or ignored. Drawing on extensive up-to-date empirical work by leading researchers in the field, this book aims to explain what debates about local governance mean for local people. Questions addressed include: what new demands are being made on citizens and why? Which citizens are affected and how have they responded? What difference do changing forms of local governance make to people's lives? The book explores governance and citizenship in relation to multiculturalism, economic migration, community cohesion, housing markets, neighbourhoods, faith organisations, behaviour change, and e-democracy, in order to establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that citizens are constituted at the local level today.
Madhu Satsangi, Nick Gallent, and Mark Bevan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423856
- eISBN:
- 9781447303985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423856.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
One of the revealing tactics for addressing housing supply pressures in the rural areas is the selective targeting of ‘local’ needs. This involves giving priority access to ‘local people’. Priority ...
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One of the revealing tactics for addressing housing supply pressures in the rural areas is the selective targeting of ‘local’ needs. This involves giving priority access to ‘local people’. Priority access to specified groups is often a requirement, written into a planning obligation where affordable housing is delivered through an exceptional permission or secured as a planning gain within a private development. In some instances, occupancy conditions have been attached to all new housing developments in an area. The local planning authority which enabled the scheme through its development control function has the responsibility to ensure that housing for local needs fulfils this purpose. This tactic is revealing: first, it highlights the indirect nature of the public response to the need for affordable housing; and second, it shows how authorities address the specific needs of a part of the housing market without increasing the general supply thereby mustering local support for development. However, this tactic has several issues and dilemmas. This chapter discusses the issues attached to the selective targeting of the ‘local’ needs. First, it discusses the controversy surrounding the priority given to ‘local people’. Second, it examines the effectiveness and the success of the tactic. Third, it analyses the implications of the giving priority to local needs on the general supply of housing as well as the undesirable consequences of the tactic. Fourth, the chapter discusses the people that should be given priority — it identifies who is ‘local’. And finally, the chapter discusses to what extent the tactic can be used to widen the social mix and create more ‘sustainable’ rural communities.Less
One of the revealing tactics for addressing housing supply pressures in the rural areas is the selective targeting of ‘local’ needs. This involves giving priority access to ‘local people’. Priority access to specified groups is often a requirement, written into a planning obligation where affordable housing is delivered through an exceptional permission or secured as a planning gain within a private development. In some instances, occupancy conditions have been attached to all new housing developments in an area. The local planning authority which enabled the scheme through its development control function has the responsibility to ensure that housing for local needs fulfils this purpose. This tactic is revealing: first, it highlights the indirect nature of the public response to the need for affordable housing; and second, it shows how authorities address the specific needs of a part of the housing market without increasing the general supply thereby mustering local support for development. However, this tactic has several issues and dilemmas. This chapter discusses the issues attached to the selective targeting of the ‘local’ needs. First, it discusses the controversy surrounding the priority given to ‘local people’. Second, it examines the effectiveness and the success of the tactic. Third, it analyses the implications of the giving priority to local needs on the general supply of housing as well as the undesirable consequences of the tactic. Fourth, the chapter discusses the people that should be given priority — it identifies who is ‘local’. And finally, the chapter discusses to what extent the tactic can be used to widen the social mix and create more ‘sustainable’ rural communities.
Oliver Davis, Dave Horton, Helen McCarthy, and Dave Wyatt
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447345299
- eISBN:
- 9781447345343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447345299.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Methodology and Statistics
This chapter addresses, through different perspectives, the role that shared archaeology and heritage work in the Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project (CAER). From the beginning, the guiding ...
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This chapter addresses, through different perspectives, the role that shared archaeology and heritage work in the Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project (CAER). From the beginning, the guiding principle has been to actively involve community members, groups, and heritage professionals in the co-production of archaeological and historical research. The project is focused on the Cardiff suburbs of Caerau and Ely. The knowledge, energy, and creativity of local people have been expressed through their engagement both with their local heritage and each other. It is the action of doing things together that has led to local communities having a stake both in the archaeology and the future of the area. Through enabling people to contribute in different ways, and to different intensities, the project has sought to hold the production of archaeological knowledge and social and political change in dynamic relationship.Less
This chapter addresses, through different perspectives, the role that shared archaeology and heritage work in the Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project (CAER). From the beginning, the guiding principle has been to actively involve community members, groups, and heritage professionals in the co-production of archaeological and historical research. The project is focused on the Cardiff suburbs of Caerau and Ely. The knowledge, energy, and creativity of local people have been expressed through their engagement both with their local heritage and each other. It is the action of doing things together that has led to local communities having a stake both in the archaeology and the future of the area. Through enabling people to contribute in different ways, and to different intensities, the project has sought to hold the production of archaeological knowledge and social and political change in dynamic relationship.
Rebecca Tuuri
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638904
- eISBN:
- 9781469638928
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638904.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Recognizing the limitations of Wednesdays in Mississippi's personal approach to creating racial change, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) helped WIMS re-envision itself as "Workshops in ...
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Recognizing the limitations of Wednesdays in Mississippi's personal approach to creating racial change, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) helped WIMS re-envision itself as "Workshops in Mississippi." Workshops in Mississippi connected grassroots, local, and impoverished women with government officials and private foundations to help the women implement self help programs. Also, following NCNW's securing of tax-exempt status in May 1966 (retroactively to December 1965), it won a $300,000 Ford Foundation grant for Project Womanpower, a program to bring together black women across to the country to strengthen their community activism. Finally, NCNW created the Commission on Community Cooperation, which hosted a series of workshops in the aftermath of the 1967 Newark and Patterson rebellions. Through these workshops in the late 1960s, NCNW leadership embraced a new model of community expert as a local and/or impoverished woman who understood poverty first-hand.Less
Recognizing the limitations of Wednesdays in Mississippi's personal approach to creating racial change, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) helped WIMS re-envision itself as "Workshops in Mississippi." Workshops in Mississippi connected grassroots, local, and impoverished women with government officials and private foundations to help the women implement self help programs. Also, following NCNW's securing of tax-exempt status in May 1966 (retroactively to December 1965), it won a $300,000 Ford Foundation grant for Project Womanpower, a program to bring together black women across to the country to strengthen their community activism. Finally, NCNW created the Commission on Community Cooperation, which hosted a series of workshops in the aftermath of the 1967 Newark and Patterson rebellions. Through these workshops in the late 1960s, NCNW leadership embraced a new model of community expert as a local and/or impoverished woman who understood poverty first-hand.
Wayne E. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814753088
- eISBN:
- 9780814765272
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814753088.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the role of local people in the success or failure of imperial expansion. Far from being mere victims, these people found ways to ...
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This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the role of local people in the success or failure of imperial expansion. Far from being mere victims, these people found ways to profit from imperial maneuverings: they could find employment and profit as allies, or they might direct the interests and energies of imperial powers against their traditional enemies. Indeed, imperial “expansion” was very often illusory, and Europeans' ability to project power actually depended entirely on local cooperation. The remainder of the chapter discusses the model set by the Spanish empire to which other European powers aspired; and the importance of intercultural alliances in the success of imperial expansion, which in turn resulted in new forms of warfare.Less
This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the role of local people in the success or failure of imperial expansion. Far from being mere victims, these people found ways to profit from imperial maneuverings: they could find employment and profit as allies, or they might direct the interests and energies of imperial powers against their traditional enemies. Indeed, imperial “expansion” was very often illusory, and Europeans' ability to project power actually depended entirely on local cooperation. The remainder of the chapter discusses the model set by the Spanish empire to which other European powers aspired; and the importance of intercultural alliances in the success of imperial expansion, which in turn resulted in new forms of warfare.
Tracy E. K'Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469607085
- eISBN:
- 9781469612553
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469607085.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The Introduction describes the lead up to the 2007 overturning by the Supreme Court of the Louisville local desegregation plan for schools. For almost as long as communities have struggled with the ...
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The Introduction describes the lead up to the 2007 overturning by the Supreme Court of the Louisville local desegregation plan for schools. For almost as long as communities have struggled with the problem of school desegregation, scholars have documented and analyzed the process and its results. This book, the Introduction explains, differs from the traditional community study text by using oral history interviews to convey much of the story. This approach strengthens the focus on local people by using their words, takes advantage of the richness of the available oral sources, and reveals additional layers of information and interpretation.Less
The Introduction describes the lead up to the 2007 overturning by the Supreme Court of the Louisville local desegregation plan for schools. For almost as long as communities have struggled with the problem of school desegregation, scholars have documented and analyzed the process and its results. This book, the Introduction explains, differs from the traditional community study text by using oral history interviews to convey much of the story. This approach strengthens the focus on local people by using their words, takes advantage of the richness of the available oral sources, and reveals additional layers of information and interpretation.
Franco De Angelis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780195170474
- eISBN:
- 9780190465339
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170474.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century, explanations for these similarities and ...
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Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century, explanations for these similarities and differences have been debated, with attention focusing on the roles played by locals and immigrants in Greek Sicily’s remarkable cultural efflorescence. Some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one of a long line of incomers whom Sicily and its inhabitants shape; others have seen them in a hierarchical manner, with the Greeks acting as the source of innovation and achievement in shaping their Sicily, while being lesser to homeland Greece. What is lacking is a basic work on social and economic history that gathers the historical and archaeological evidence and deploys it to test the various historical models. This book represents the first such endeavor. It adopts a broadly based interdisciplinary approach that combines classical and prehistoric studies, texts and material culture, and a variety of methods and theories to put the history of Greek Sicily on a new footing. While Sicily and Greece had conjoined histories from the start, their relationship was neither one of center and periphery nor “colonial,” but an interdependent and mutually enriching diaspora. Simultaneously, local conditions and peoples, including Phoenician migrants, also shaped the evolution of Sicilian Greek societies and economies. This book explains the similarities and differences with developments in Greece and brings greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in ancient Sicily’s impressive achievements.Less
Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century, explanations for these similarities and differences have been debated, with attention focusing on the roles played by locals and immigrants in Greek Sicily’s remarkable cultural efflorescence. Some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one of a long line of incomers whom Sicily and its inhabitants shape; others have seen them in a hierarchical manner, with the Greeks acting as the source of innovation and achievement in shaping their Sicily, while being lesser to homeland Greece. What is lacking is a basic work on social and economic history that gathers the historical and archaeological evidence and deploys it to test the various historical models. This book represents the first such endeavor. It adopts a broadly based interdisciplinary approach that combines classical and prehistoric studies, texts and material culture, and a variety of methods and theories to put the history of Greek Sicily on a new footing. While Sicily and Greece had conjoined histories from the start, their relationship was neither one of center and periphery nor “colonial,” but an interdependent and mutually enriching diaspora. Simultaneously, local conditions and peoples, including Phoenician migrants, also shaped the evolution of Sicilian Greek societies and economies. This book explains the similarities and differences with developments in Greece and brings greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in ancient Sicily’s impressive achievements.
